Top Analyst Firm Positions Fiorano Software in the "Visionary" Quadrant in the Application Integration Suites Magic Quadrant

Fiorano's Business Integration Suite With Fiorano Enterprise Service Bus Provides Complete Enterprise Integration Solution

Fiorano Software, Inc. today announced that Gartner Inc., a leading research and advisory firm, has positioned FioranoESB™ in the Visionary Quadrant of its Application Integration Suites Magic Quadrant, released on May 14, 2004, which is based on research from 10 of its top analysts.

"We believe Gartner's placement of Fiorano in the Visionary Quadrant for integration underlines Fiorano's ability to provide reliable, cutting-edge integration solutions to enterprises," said Atul Saini, CEO of Fiorano. "This update of the Magic Quadrant further confirms Fiorano's position as a leading player in the integration marketplace," he added.

"We're seeing an acceleration of interest in the ESB space," said Tom Stack, VP of Business Development at Fiorano. "We are signing many strategic partnerships and rapidly adding FioranoESB™ clients, further optimizing our service delivery and customer experience."

Fiorano offers the world's only second-generation Enterprise Service Bus. The Fiorano architecture allows a direct mapping of the Business user's logical design to the IT department's physical implementation, making the development process more intuitive and much easier than that of conventional integration suites. "Right now, a huge amount of time, energy and money is spent in the communication required between Business user's and IT," said Atul Saini. "Fiorano completely eliminates this problem, removing a major headache and expense from Integration Project Execution," he added.

About the Gartner Magic Quadrant(c)

Gartner's Magic Quadrant for the integration market covers 23 software vendors that offer an integration broker with other middleware products. [Magic Quadrant for Application Integration Suites, 2Q04 by Roy W. Schulte, Jess Thompson, Michele Cantara, Joanne M. Correia, Kimihiko Iijima, Frank Kenney, Benoit Lheureux, Yefim V. Natis, Massimo Pezzini and Jim Sinur]

Gartner assesses vendors on both "vision" and "ability to execute," placing companies in relative positions within the Magic Quadrant. In assessing vision, Gartner looks at "the degree to which a vendor anticipates and influences the market's trends." Gartner's execution criteria include "the degree to which the vendor has delivered a viable and competitive product to date and its record of business execution. According to Gartner, vendors listed in the Visionary Quadrant have a clear vision of market direction and are focused on preparing for that, and have areas where they can further optimize service delivery.

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted May 2004 by Gartner Inc. and is reused with permission. Please see www.gartner.com for complete disclaimer and terms of use.

About Fiorano Software, Inc.

Fiorano www.fiorano.com)">, Silicon Valley, CA, is a leading provider of Enterprise class Integration Middleware. Fiorano's network-centric solutions set a new paradigm in interoperability, performance, scalability and ROI. Global leaders such as American Express, AT&T Wireless, Boeing, BTI Canada, FedEx, General American Corporation, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, Morgan Stanley, Schlumberger and POSCO have used Fiorano technology to deploy their Enterprise Nervous Systems.

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